Information
about the deaths of the following alumni was received in the Office
of Development and compiled by Susan Apple. Please send information
to University of North Texas, Alumni Records, P.O. Box 311250, Denton,
Texas 76203-1250, send e-mail to amayer@unt.edu
or fill out the online form.

Hazel Bruner Horton ('30),
Austin. She taught elementary school and served as a substitute
teacher in the Austin schools before retiring.

Oliver Lawhorn ('30),
Denton. He was retired from the field of oil exploration geophysics.

Gladys Alexander Waters ('30),
Weatherford. She taught in the Weatherford ISD for 38 years.

Nettie Chambers ('33,
'49 M.A.), Sunset.
She taught in Stoneburg, Sunset, Park Springs and Chico for 36
years before retiring in 1973.

Helen S. Stone ('33),
Dallas. She studied home economics at North Texas.

Laura B. Ridlon ('35),
Bedford. She was a teacher and librarian for the Northwest school
district. At North Texas, she was one of the founders of the Kaghlirs,
which later affiliated with Alpha Phi sorority.

Woodrow McCam Avent ('36),
Waco. A doctor, he was in private practice for more than 50 years
and served as the medical director of St. Elizabeth Long Term
Care Facility.

Mary Tom Campbell ('37),
Waxahachie. She taught English and Spanish at Waxahachie High
School for 20 years.

Ralph Monroe Gage ('37),
Fort Worth. The first in his family to earn a college degree,
he established Gage Chemical and Equipment Co. in 1956.

Irene Brewer Emerson ('38),
Parker. She taught school in the Seagoville and Pleasant Grove
area for 44 years.

Frankie Mae Stewart Hansell ('38),
Arlington. She helped establish the first public health nutrition
clinic in New York City, and she worked for the U.S. Public Health
Service in Washington, D.C. For almost 20 years, she served with
the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization, working
in India, Thailand and Italy.

Verda G. Justiss ('38),
Corsicana. She was a business administrator at Navarro Junior
College for 27 years and taught school in Carbon, Scranton and
Dawson.

Audie Sumner ('38),
Grand Prairie. She taught elementary school for 40 years. She
started working in Grand Prairie in 1951 and was a third-grade
teacher at Milam Elementary School.

Dorothy Waldrip ('38),
Brookshire. Her degree from North Texas was in elementary education.

Helen S. Miller ('40),
Dallas. She studied general business at North Texas.

Bettye Jo Schultz ('41),
Anahuac. She taught a Sunday School class at the First United
Methodist Church in Anahuac for more than 20 years. She earned
her license to practice vocational nursing from Lee College.

F.G. Chrisman ('42),
Austin. He was a pharmaceutical representative. During World War
II, he was chief inspector for the P51c Mustang plant at North
American Aviation in Grand Prairie.

Flora Mae Jones ('42),
Mineola. She earned her degree in general business.

Seth V. Strain ('42),
Fort Worth. He was a teacher and then principal of B.H. Carroll
Elementary School in Fort Worth for 35 years.

Dorris Kirkpatrick Hollabaugh ('44),
Arlington. She was a teacher for 32 years and retired as a real
estate broker from Ebby Halliday.

Iwania Lucille Williams ('45),
Granbury. She taught in several Texas towns and retired from Birdville
ISD in 1972.

Jeirenne Jones ('46),
Krum. Jones majored in art at North Texas.

John C. Spencer Jr. ('47),
Gilmer. He was the owner and operator of Complete Business Systems.
He served with the Marines at Iwo Jima in World War II and received
a Purple Heart.

Vada Mae DeFoor ('48),
Denton. She had worked for Williams Dickey, the American Red Cross,
the Blackstone Hotel and Moore Business Forms.

Zelva Ray McIntyre ('48),
Trenton, Ohio. Music education was McIntyre's field of study at
North Texas.

James W. Swain ('52),
Waco. He was a faculty member in the theatre arts department at
Baylor University from 1966 to 1991.

Richard ‘Dick' Curtis Jr. ('53),
Pottsboro. He retired as an engineer from Texas Instruments in
1970 and owned and operated Curtis Acres Boat Storage in Pottsboro
until 1990.

Harold Ray Fuller ('53),
Colleyville. He was a co-founding partner of Cheshier & Fuller
LLP in Dallas. While at North Texas, he served as president of
Sigma Phi Epsilon and was elected to the student senate.

William Wilhite ('53),
College Station. He studied general business at North Texas.

Billy Reese Glasgow ('54),
Fort Worth. He was a retired U.S. Navy commander, serving during
the Korean and Vietnam wars.

Bill R. Moseley ('54),
Paris. He taught journalism and English in the Winters, Midland,
Odessa and Prairieland school districts and spent 17 years as
dean of instruction and as vice president for administrative affairs
at Paris Junior College.

Durwood ‘Woody' Bruton ('62),
Dallas. He taught school in the Dallas area and was co-owner of
Medical Electronics in Dallas. He was known as an excellent musician
who entertained for friends and business functions.

Larry Don Enis ('62),
Boyd. He worked for the Boyd ISD for 40 years, 30 years as superintendent.
He received a lung transplant in 1999 and encouraged others to
become organ donors.

Louise J. Nelson ('62),
Fort Worth. A retired teacher, she was a founding member of the
Association of Texas Educators, which later became the Association
of Texas Professional Educators.

Barry C. Minke ('63,
'94 M.Ed.), Denton.
He worked in sales and production for Christian Images & Slides
and was associated with the Boy Scouts, receiving the Order of
the Arrow award.

Charlene Ann Hahn ('64),
Irving. She worked as a substitute teacher in the Irving ISD before
beginning her career in library administration with the Irving
Public Library. She later worked at the University of Texas Southwestern
Medical Center Library in Dallas.

Richard A. Gibson ('65),
Sanger. He taught speech in Texas high schools and was a principal
in Lolita, Henrietta, Windthorst and Saint Jo. He was also a licensed
Methodist pastor.

Norman Hobbs ('66),
Sanger. He was a teacher for Burkburnett and Northwest schools
before going into retail sales.

Carolyn Pettus ('67),
Graham. She taught first grade at Shawnee Elementary School before
retiring. She was also a cattle rancher, actively managing a cow-calf
operation in Graham.

Janice Faye DeMore ('68),
Pearland. She was a biologist in cancer research at M.D. Anderson
Hospital.

Jamie Voigt Hemphill ('68
M.S.), Mason. The
mayor of Mason, he had taught and served as counselor in the Mason
schools for 25 years. For more than 30 years he sang the national
anthem and served as the announcer at home football games.

Gena Poore Piccolo ('68),
Weston, Colo. She operated a holistic chiropractic and nutrition
counseling practice in Sedona, Ariz., and more recently edited
journals for the American Heart Association.

James W. Rushing ('68),
Woodstock, Ga. He majored in banking and finance at North Texas.

William Burr Pilcher Sr. ('69),
Richardson. He served in the Air Force during the Korean War and
was active in the Knights of Columbus.

Shirley
Sharon Murphy ('71),Irving.
She was co-founder of the Mail Box Inc., a Dallas direct-mailing
company. In 1997, she and her husband established the Ken and
Shirley Murphy Scholarship in Entrepreneurship at UNT. They also
donated $1 million to establish the Murphy Enterprise Center in
the Department of Management. Shirley received UNT's Distinguished
Alumna Award last year.

Barry
Lyn Williams ('71),
Grand Saline. He was a teacher and musician.

Nancy Kiser (74),
Denton. She was employed as a nurse.

Joe Dale Sparks ('74),
Boyd. He was a teacher at the Juvenile Detention Center in Boyd.

JoAnn Valerie Churak ('75),
Arlington. She had taught school and was employed as the manager
of the Summer Brook Apartments in Arlington.

David Lee Hyman ('75),
Austin. He was employed by Unisource in Austin.

Harry Ray ‘Maxx' Johnson ('76),
Dallas. He taught elementary school for 19 years in Fort Worth,
Houston and Dallas.

Terisa D. King ('79),
Tucson, Ariz. She majored in speech and drama at North Texas.

Virginia Ann Vanderzyl ('79),
Fort Worth. She was a visual information specialist supervisor
with the Army and Air Force exchange services for more than 18
years.

John Dwight Greenhill ('92),
Carrollton. He was employed with Peterbilt Motors Co. in Denton.

Bradley Sterling ('92),
Carrollton. He studied illustration at UNT and won the best portfolio
award in 1992. He became a certified fitness trainer and later
worked with Network Multifamily and Advocare International while
establishing his own business, BySterling.com.

Supitcha Morakul ('99
Ph.D.), Fountain Valley,
Calif., killed in an automobile accident in Thailand. She received
her doctorate in accounting in May 1999.

Lora Leigh Swindle Trout ('99),
Coppell. She was employed by the Hurst-Euless- Bedford ISD as
a 10th-grade teacher at L.D. Bell High School. At UNT she was
a member of the Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity.

Ruth
Michler,
Denton, associate professor of mathematics, 1994-2000. Michler
was struck by a construction vehicle Nov. 1 as she waited to cross
a Boston intersection on her bicycle. She was born in Ithaca,
N.Y., and grew up in Germany. Before joining UNT, she taught at
Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, and at Berkeley. An active
researcher, she was spending a year as a visiting scholar at Northeastern
University under a grant from the National Science Foundation.
Her areas of expertise included algebraic geometry, cyclic homology
and singularities. She also was a marathon runner and cyclist.

Irby
C. Nichols, Dallas,
Professor Emeritus of history, 1955-1990. Nichols taught at the
New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell before joining UNT. He
specialized in post-Napoleonic diplomacy and was also interested
in modern Europe, European military history and church history.
He wrote the first book-length study of the Congress of Verona
The European
Pentarchy and the Congress of Verona, 1822
 and co-wrote a 1962 self-study for the university.
He also served as the departmental graduate adviser and directed
16 theses during his tenure.

Rita
J. Pilkey ('29),
Denton, Professor Emeritus of kinesiology, health promotion and
recreation, 1946-1974. As a student at North Texas in the '20s,
Pilkey was a member of the Green Jackets, the Women's Athletic
Association and the Physical Education Club. During World War
II, she served abroad with the American Red Cross, establishing
recreation clubs for troops in China. Classes she taught at North
Texas included recreation theory, camp leadership, tumbling and
square dancing. The Rita Pilkey Scholarship is given annually
to outstanding students majoring in recreation and leisure studies.

Ann
Sartin Windle ('69, '78 Ph.D.),
Denton, lecturer in the early childhood program, 1994-1997. In
1996 Windle received the 'Fessor Graham Award, given annually
by the students to a faculty member for outstanding service. She
developed and taught the first state-funded kindergarten classes
in Texas at the Birdville School District in the early '70s, consulted
for schools across the state and helped with Head Start training
for 17 districts. A Denton school board member since 1998 and
current board secretary, she helped design an early childhood
center in Denton. The board renamed the Sullivan-Keller Early
Childhood Center the Ann Windle School for Young Children in her
honor.